My heart is on a budget._x000D_ It keeps me on the brink.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that the speaker is cautious about their emotional investments, limiting their openness to love.
Anne Sexton's quote reflects the idea that love requires careful consideration and emotional management. By stating 'My heart is on a budget,' she implies that her capacity to love is restricted, emphasizing the fragility and risk associated with deeply caring for others. The image of being 'on the brink' suggests that while she has the potential for profound feelings, there is also a constant tension and fear of overextending herself emotionally, leading to potential hurt.
In practice
In a romantic relationship, during an open discussion about emotional availability, one might use this quote to express caution.
The Witch's Life" When I was a child there was an old woman in our neighborhood whom we called The Witch. All day she peered from her second story window from behind the wrinkled curtains and sometimes she would open the window and yell: Get out of my life! She had hair like kelp and a voice like a boulder. I think of her sometimes now and wonder if I am becoming her.
Do you like me?” No answer. Silence bounced, fell off his tongue and sat between us and clogged my throat. It slaughtered my trust. It tore cigarettes out of my mouth. We exchanged blind words, and I did not cry, I did not beg, but blackness filled my ears, blackness lunged in my heart, and something that had been good, a sort of kindly oxygen, turned into a gas oven.
Don't bite till you know if it's bread or stone.
Abundance is scooped from abundance yet abundance remains.
I find now, swallowing one teaspoon of pain, that it drops downward to the past where it mixes with last year’s cupful and downward into a decade’s quart and downward into a lifetime’s ocean. I alternate treading water and deadman’s float.
I am your dwarf. I am the enemy within. I am the boss of your dreams. See. Your hand shakes. It is not palsy or booze. It is your Doppelganger trying to get out. Beware...Beware...
Herman slipped his hand into mine, and I thought, An average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which was one good reason but not the only one to hold someone's hand, and the next thing that happened was we kissed each other, and I found I knew how, and I felt happy and sad in equal parts, because I knew that I was falling in love, but it wasn't with him.
Darkness may hide the trees and the flowers from the eyes but it cannot hide love from the soul.
The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.
Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in its spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.
I understand lost love, and I think that can destroy a man more than anything if it was a deep love that is lost somehow.
Forgive my grief for one removed Thy creature whom I found so fair I trust he lives in Thee and there I find him worthier to be loved.
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